WTN: Another excellent wine value from the Rhone

I got my case before I turned you animals loose on the carcass. This is truly a very good QPR wine worth half again the price.

2004 Domaine Les Pallières, Gigondas, France, $24. Kermit Lynch owns this property and Vieux Telegraphe makes the wine. Earth, smoke and black cherries intermingle on the nose and then carry over to the palate. Full, ripe, balanced, crisp and loaded with minerals are only a few of the adjectives found here; 89/91.

Sounds yum! My tastes seem to be shifting a tiny bit towards Rhone-at least for QPR.

May be worth a short drive to Berkeley.

I suppose that IS good QPR these days, but I'm sorry, it still gives me sticker shock. I've bought next to nothing (drinking down my cellar, instead) since the turn of the millennium. $24 for Gigondas is one of the reasons why. And I won't even get started about Cote-Rotie and Cornas . . . .

Price-wise, the fine wine world has left me behind, I'm afraid.

-Paul W.

Git off yer butt and git driving, Brian.

Paul, the day of $40 regular cuvee CdP is here. It makes the $24 Gigondas seem very reasonable.

Randy,

Gives me reason to fly to SF and visit Berkeley again next week........my styrofoam shippers are getting a great amount of use this year to and from Boston....Maybe this time I won't go up to Napa and just stay at ACME Bread and Kermits.

San Francisco -- now there is one screwed up town for politics, but I can't help loving that city. There is something electric about the place. It is certainly a wine and foodies paradise.

I suppose that IS good QPR these days, but I'm sorry, it still gives me sticker shock. I've bought next to nothing (drinking down my cellar, instead) since the turn of the millennium. $24 for Gigondas is one of the reasons why. And I won't even get started about Cote-Rotie and Cornas . . . .

Price-wise, the fine wine world has left me behind, I'm afraid.

-Paul W.

Paul,

I'm with you. I saw Guigal Cote Rotie at some shop for $100 last week. Beaucastel is often over $100. QPR Gigondas for $24 seems crazy.

Tom T.

Paul, the day of $40 regular cuvee CdP is here. It makes the $24 Gigondas seem very reasonable.

Yes, yes, yes, I know. But I can still bellyache about it.

-Paul W.

Yes, yes, yes, I know. But I can still bellyache about it.

And I am here to listen to you. Now, let's start with your childhood. Tell me in exacting detail about your upbringing... (just ignore me if I nod off -- keep on talking)

Now where did I put my slippers?

Yes, yes, yes, I know. But I can still bellyache about it.

And I am here to listen to you. Now, let's start with your childhood. Tell me in exacting detail about your upbringing... (just ignore me if I nod off -- keep on talking)

Now where did I put my slippers?

Hey! Can you guys take that over to the Wine Therapy board please?

Randy said:

San Francisco -- now there is one screwed up town for politics, but I can't help loving that city. There is something electric about the place. It is certainly a wine and foodies paradise.

Pelosi for President 2007!

Pelosi for President 2007!

Put the knife to my throat now, Jim.

[David M. Bueker]

Pelosi for President 2007!

Put the knife to my throat now, Jim.

Don't worry too mcuh Bucko - Pelosi supporters don't know when the election is.

Myself, I'm shooting for Brownback in '08-straight from The Heartland.

What a region, the home of Quayle, State Governments owned by the KKK, Grover Norquist, Oral Roberts University, Pastor Hagar, and Westboro Baptist Church (they WILL be attending the Blacksburg funerals, of course) and huge farm subsidies (while complaining about "welfare").

Once we elect A Grand Moral Arbiter from the Midwest, all conflicts with the Islamic World will disappear, as their vision differs so little from Sharia!

(A PROUD refugee from Indiana and a Happy resident of California )

Paul,
If I'm not mistaken, you can still find excellent non-Parker-rated Gigondas for about 16 bucks...

Not in our part of the world. Wine Searcher pretty much starts at 19 bucks and goes up, and I can't speak for the quality of many of those. We have to pay all of those tier people.